Since we can understand that we are trapped within the three modes, we can know that all our activities began at the point when we embraced material consciousness. At that moment, we began to center all our thoughts and desires around bodily consciousness, which is the sphere or field of activity. We do not see activity beyond the physical plane, and we no longer have access to the spiritual world. Only by submitting to spiritual authority can we regain access to the spiritual world when we are in material consciousness.
(SB 3.26.6 Novosibirsk, 11.15.1996)